European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday August 20, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Canad ans look up to pacemaker in space Pioneer astronaut from Quebec still keeps Busy As a role Model by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Soellinger Germany to americans he s just another face in the crowd of talented passengers who have had their tickets punched at Cape canaveral launch pads Over the years. But to canadians Marc Garneau is a National hero. Nearly three years have passed since the Navy Cap Tain became the first Canadian astronaut to Fly in space aboard the space shuttle challenger. Yet. Despite the passage of time and the later catastrophic explosion of the Craft in which he once Rode children still ask about space monsters and their parents still clamor for his autograph. His visit tuesday to Canadian forces base Baden soul Lingen provided ample evidence of that and a Stop late wednesday at nearby cab Lahr was expected to do the same. Garneau a 38-year-old Quebec City native said he May never ride in space again because of delays in the shuttle program and because five other Canadian astronauts Are awaiting their turn. But he said he still enjoys his work which consists of flight training speaking engagements and consulting with scientists about space project proposals. It s a variety of different jobs and it s probably going to keep me Busy for the next couple of years he said. It kept him Busy tuesday even though he was sup posed to be on vacation. First he took a 45-minute Light As a passenger in a Cf-18 fighter bomber at cab Laden soc Lingen. Then he fielded questions from Doz ens of Young schoolchildren at the base shopping area. And he delivered a 90-Minutc lecture at the base s ambassador club with films of his eight Day flight with six american astronauts in october 1984. Garneau never dreamed of being an astronaut while he was growing up. He joined the Navy in 1965, and graduated from the Imperial College of science and technology at London Ontario with a doctorate in electrical engineering. Then the Canadian government advertised for candidates for its astronaut corps and Garneau and five other finalists were selected in 1983. You have to make a big adjustment and you have to do it very quickly he said recalling the seven months of preparation that went into his eight Day space flight As a payload specialist conducting experiments devised by Canadian scientists. He said the last two hours when he was strapped into his seat and locked in the shuttle awaiting Blastoff were the worst. The 1986 explosion that killed seven american astronauts has not dampened Garneau s enthusiasm for the shuttle program. Like everybody else we were really shocked and took a while to sort out our own thoughts. I think everybody has come to terms with is Pitolo by Joseph Owen nary capt. Marc Garneau Garneau said none of the Canadian astronauts has quit the program and those americans who left the corps Haven t done so because of the explosion. He said Canada s stake in the space program is an important one and his country plans to exploit it fully. In Canadian parliamentary budget Battles space is not an area that has suffered he said. The govern ment believes that space is in the same category As telecommunications and that those Are two areas where Canada is very Good. I think people have got to realize that re re search and development has got to become our Pri Mary resource. Because our other natural resources Are losing in their to Cut waiting times set uniform procedures Dod puts new emphasis on Organ donations by Chuck Vinc Washington Bureau Washington All adults eligible for military medical care will soon be asked to voluntarily sign donor cards Al lowing their vital organs and tissues to be used in transplants after death according to a new directive. The new policy signed this week by Deputy Secretary of defense William in requires that All Active duty and retired Servic members and their spouses be asked to sign and carry a card authorizing the use of their organs if they Are compatible with a patient who needs them. Signing the donor card is strictly voluntary. Potential donors shall not be coerced or intimidated in any manner to donate body organs or the policy states. The directive was issued to reduce the often lengthy waiting time for patients who desperately need transplants. The directive also sets Down uniform proce dures for Organ donations among the military services which sometimes vary a Dod health care official said. But the official cautioned against Overly optimistic predictions of just How much those waiting lists will be Cut be cause of the directive. It will take time to see the results he said. We just can t say there will suddenly be thousands of additional or Gans available. About 65,000 people die in military hospitals each year but most of those Are retired elderly patients whose organs could not be used for the defense department has encouraged donations of organs in the past the official said. But until now there s been no real administrative procedure setting out How that should be done he said. Now that an Overall policy has been set the serv ices will have to draw up regulations to coordinate and obtain the donations and to match donors with the policy gives the services 120 Days to do that the official said which Means that the first donor cards will not begin appearing in military health care facilities until late this year or Early next year. Persons will be asked to sign the Dona Tion cards during routine physical exams and when applying for identification cards he said. Under Normal circumstances Active duty and retired health care beneficiaries will have priority Access to organs and tissues from other Dod donors the policy states. When a transplant Organ becomes available military medical facilities will be required to first Contact the Wilford Hall air Force medical Center in san Antonio Texas and the Walter Reed army medical Center in Washington d.c., to Sec whether the Organ can be matched with a potential Dod recipient. Those Are the Only two military facilities that currently perform transplants and the operations Are limited to kidney transplants the official said. But the kidney is the most sought after Organ so we re hoping this policy can trim the list of military health care beneficiaries who need kidneys he said. If neither facility has a recipient for donated organs they can then be mad available to civilian hospitals for other military and non military patients the policy states. Even if a person signs a donor card the policy still will require physicians to ask permission of the next of Lin before removing organs and if the next of Kin decline to allow the donation their wishes will be honoured the policy states. Organs and tissues that beneficiaries will be asked 19 donate include the heart lungs liver kidneys pancreas Corneas eyes skin Bone Bone marrow blood vessels Dura a membrane surrounding the brain and spinal Cord and fascia a Type of muscle tissue. Little Hope then they heard a child crying Detroit a searching amid the soldering fragments of what had been Northwest flight 255, or. John Girardot had Little Hope that police searchers flashlights would find survivors. Then Over the Din of arriving emergency vehicles end Rescue workers searching furiously they heard a child crying. A fireman removed pieces of Luggage a couple of cushions and some other bodies that we had to Clear to get to the child said Girardot a 26-year-old medical resident at Oakwood Hospital in suburban Dearborn. The hunched figure of 4-year-old Cecilia Cichan was strapped in a seat in a twisted but at least recognizable piece of fuselage he said. She had her Back to us at this time face Down and we did not want to move her until we could get her neck stabilized said Girardot. Maybe god protected her for some reason he said. Maybe one of the persons around her was cradling her or protecting the others aboard the md-80 jetliner bound for Phoenix died sunday when the Jet plunged to Earth on Takeoff an Orange fireball skidding under three via ducts spewing bodies and cargo along a half mile Trail and killing at feast three people on the ground. Finding the girl at the outset of the search gave us Hope for additional survivors but As it turned out nobody else lived he said. Cecilia unconscious and in serious condition at . Molt Chil Dren s Hospital in Ann Arbor was found about 30 feet away from what was believed to be the jetliner s cockpit Girardot said. The child received first degree Burns Over about 30 percent of her body and underwent surgery to repair broken Bones officials adj the girl cried but did not speak to rescuers Girar Dot said. Near her were 50 to 60 bodies so badly burned that their sex could not be easily determined he said. Girardot said he was returning Home on interstate 94 when he saw this huge explosion and fire Cloud extending about 300 or 400 feet on the horizon. The crash was a Nightmare come True for Pam Davidson a paramedic who attended the girl. For three years she has worked with Taylor ambulance service not far from de troit metropolitan Airport she said. I be always said my greatest fear is a plane crash be cause of the area i work said Davidson 22. She and partner Tim Schroeder were less than 10 min utes away when the jetliner crashed. Theirs was the first ambulance to arrive at the North end of the strip of burning we did t have time to think about the horror be cause within moments we were informed that we had patient who was alive she said. It is an absolute Miracle. There is no doubt about that she said pans of the plane were still smoking and fire fighters police and emergency workers were swarming to the can t really imagine what it was like unless you were there she said but we did t feel in any immediate danger we also had a patient and it was a child and sometimes you put aside a Little bit of danger. We had to put aside our feelings and do w hat we were trained to
